Senior Engineer

Nuvia

Nuvia

San Diego, CA, USA
USD 108,300-162,500 / year + Equity
Posted on Oct 10, 2025

Job Description

Job Posting Date

2025-10-09


Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Applications Engineering

General Summary:

This position, part of the Customer Engineering (CE) organization supporting the Auto Telematics business, focuses on platform software development across Linux BSP—including peripheral interface drivers (PCIe, USB, I2C, SPI, UART), device security, boot, memory management (heap/stack profiling), system performance tuning, and crash stability analysis—offering hands-on exposure to Qualcomm’s advanced chipset solutions, early-stage system software, and collaboration with global OEMs, with occasional travel for onsite customer support and cross-site engineering engagements.

Candidate in this role will support a wide range of customer/partner activities from product design, SW engineering to commercialization. This includes training, documentation, assisting customers in debugging, optimizing, and integrating software.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

• 1+ year of any combination of academic and/or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
• 1+ year of any combination of academic and/or work experience with debugging techniques.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and/or Computer Science and/or Electrical Engineering and 4+ years of experience
  • Strong C/C++ programming experience
  • Generic software programming skill and tool knowledge – python, software version control system
  • Strong knowledge of Embedded OS (Kernel architecture, Drivers, OS services – heap, memory and crash debugging)
  • Knowledge of multimedia, networking, peripherals, connectivity areas
  • Experience in design and development of Linux kernel, device driver, Bootloaders, BSPs areas
  • Strong Debugging skills on generic processors
  • Knowledge of OS/system performance profiling and optimization techniques a plus

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's, Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science and/or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience 3+ years of experience
  • Experience in software design and development for software layers found in SoCs
  • Solid knowledge of ARMv8 and ARMv9 architecture and its extensions
  • Knowledge of processor architecture and cache subsystem
  • Knowledge of Qualcomm modem chipset
  • Strong team player

Additional Skills:

Since this position requires continual interaction with Qualcomm customers, the candidate must have strong communication, written & interpersonal skills, high motivation, the ability to learn quickly. Must be a self-starter.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$108,300.00 - $162,500.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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